Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry
Recent Successes of the Energy Landscape Theory of Protein Folding
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Date
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Time
11 a.m.
Location
1315 Chemistry Building
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Peter G. Wolynes, University of California, San Diego. Protein folding can be understood as a biased search on a funneled but rugged energy landscape. This picture can be made quantitative using the statistical mechanics of glasses and first order transitions in mesoscopic systems. The funneled nature of the protein energy landscape is a consequence of natural selection.
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